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If you want supper, a boy will show you to the dinin-room for twenty-five cents. Your room bein in the tenth story, it will cost you a dollar to be shown up there." "How much do you ax for a man breathin in this equinomikal tarvun?" sed I. "Ten cents a Breth," was his reply. I sent up my keerd to the Prints, and was immejitly ushered before him. He received me kindly, and axed me to sit down.
"Where is the chief, Ephraim?" this to the grizzled hunter who was methodically reloading his long rifle. "He's back yonder, gathering in the hair-crop, I reckon. Never you mind about him, Cap'n. He'll turn up when he smells the meat a-cooking, immejitly, if not sooner."
All the mean men go to Injianny. Cl'ar out. We don't want nobody 'round heah, and specially no Injiannians. They'uns is a pizun lot." "Yes, cl'ar out immejitly," commanded the old man. "I'm a Jestice of the Peace, and ef you don't go to wunst I'll find a way to make yo'. We've a law agin able-bodied vagrants. Cl'ar out, now."
"Ez for making tracks immejitly, if not sooner, I allow there ain't no two notions about that. But I'm dad-daddled if I know which-a-way to put out, Cap'n John, and that's the gospil fact." "Why not strike for the Great Trace, and so go back the way the powder convoy came?" I asked. It could be done, he said, but the hazard was great.
But, lawzee! we had ne'er a man o' God 'mongst us to rise up and prophesy what was a-going to happen if we didn't get up and scratch gravel immejitly, if not sooner; though I won't deny that Cap'n Dick did try his hand that-away." "True; and I would now we had listened to him," said I, gloomily enough. "We have lost our chance, and God knows if we shall ever have another.
Bime-by they'll settle down for the night, and then we'll go up yonder and pizen 'em immejitly, if not sooner. But there ain't no kind o' use to spile it all by rampaging 'round too soon." There was wisdom undeniable in this, and, accordingly, we waited, taking turns at the hunter's terrible pipe in lieu of supper, and laying our plan of attack.
And we've been having him here at dinner and and I have Oh, I shall die! I wish I WAS dead!" Then followed hysterics and agony, greedily listened to by Debby, whose ear was at the crack of the door. Captain Elkanah soothed and pleaded and tried to pacify. It ended by his promising to investigate and, if necessary, take steps 'immejitly. Lavinia Pepper sprung the mine on her brother.
I didn't obsarve the outrajus transacshuns ontil the next evening when the peple begun for to kongregate. Suddinly they kommensed fur to larf and holler in a boysterious stile. Sez I good peple what's up? Sez thay them's grate wax wurks, isn't they, old man. I immejitly looked up ter whare the wax works was, and my blud biles as I think of the site which then met my Gase.
Don't have nothin' to do with it!" shouted the old man. "Hit's high treason to take Federal money. Law's awful severe about that. Not less'n one year, nor more'n 20 in the penitentiary, for a citizen, and death for a soljer, to be ketched dealin' in the inemy's money. I kin turn yo' right to the law. Ole man, take yo' money and cl'ar off the place immejitly.
"Good morning, ma'am," he said, as he smiled brightly at her. "Howlja like to join me in a bit of investergation that'll proberly end up in a s'lution of the mystery?" "I'd like it first rate," replied Miss Ames, with enthusiasm. "When do we begin?" "Immejitly. Where's Mis' Embury?" "In her room." "No use a-disturbin' her, but I want'a see the jersey the gymnasium jersey your ghost wore."
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